The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-05-23

| over 100 feet long, on the ALBEIT ohaW Iarih
in Industry, burned Friday, with ten tons OF
hay, two moving machines, and other farm
tools. J. II. Saver, who occupies the farm,
says it was the work of tramps. Loss $500;
insured for $780,
| Star Service Established.
WASHINGTON, May 21.--A Star postal SER
| vice has been established from Eureka to
Oakland, A miles and back, six times week,
from July /, 1887, to June 3O 1888.
Attempted RurglarIes.
STRONG, May 2l.-Strong Village is much
excited over a series of attempted burglaries.
Thursday night the Sandy River railroad
depot and the stores of III. j. Bates and
Daggett Bros were broken and entered, the
money drawers rifed and goods scattered
The robbers obtained but small booty, how
ever, as most of the cash had been locked up
in the various safes. A blacksmith shop be-
longing to Hutchins & Hartwell was also
entered and tools stolen, with which it is
supposed entrance was effected to the stores.
No trace of the depredators has yet been
obtained except the tracks which they left in
the soil near the scene of their operations,
and the glass scattered about from the
smashed store windows This is the second
here within a year.
Drowning Accident at Bangor.
BANGOR, May 21.-An unknown man fell
into the Kenduskeag Stream tonight and
was drowned. From indications he was
probably intoxicated and fell off the wharf
while attempting to pass between a car on
the track and vessel. He was about five
feet eigbtlinches tall, 35 or 40 years old, and
had the figure of woman in India ink ON
his left arm.
BANGOR, May 21.-The man drowned in
the stream last night has been identified by
a man named Chambers, who is in the station
house for drunkenness, as his companion,
named Mcdonald, said to belong in Lewis
ton. 1t appears that both procured some
liquor and went on the wharf to drink It,
which is the last the arrested man knew till
he sobered off in the lookup. He was taken
from pile of boards near the water while
dead drunk and in danger of falling in.
Mcdonald probably fell off while Chambers
was asleep.
Suicide at Bar Mills.
BIDDEFoRD, May 21.-Mr. Frank Beynton
of Bar Mills, aged about 45 years. committed
suicide early Saturday morning by throwing
himself into a small pool of water near his
residence. Mr.. Boynton was before the
grand jury at Alfred yesterday to give evil
dence in a cider case. and the fact that he
would be obliged to testify against his neigh
Dor troubled his mind and caused him to
take his own life. His body was found by
neighbors shortly after life had become
extinct. Mr.. Boynton was member of
Came Post, G. A. r., and had good war
record. He was brother of the Boynton
who shot himself in the same village a few
years ago.
Skowhegan's Electric Light Genius.
SKowHEGAN, May 21.-Darius Houghton,
the Skowhegan genius who invented some
thing new in arc electric lighting about
year and a half ago, has been pegging away
at his electric idea ever since, and has Just
got his light perfected. One night this week
for the first time his electricity was running
at the Skowhegan electric light station for
private illumination. His lamp is only 10
inches tall from the bottom of the globe. A
Skowhegan syndicate owns the light, and
they are confident there are millions in it.
One New York man made an offer of $4,000
for one-third interest short time so ago,
it said, but his offer was refused. The in
ventor has spent large amount of money
and considerable time developing this
scheme, and the men who own it think they
have got the biggest electric light in the
country.